Chikage
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|---|---|
| Name | chikage |
| Appearance | ornate samurai saber |
| Damage vs. small | 1d10 |
| Damage vs. large | 1d12 |
| Damage type | slashing |
| To-hit bonus | +1 |
| Weapon skill | longsword |
| Expert traits | (none) |
| Primary attribute | strength |
| Magical item? | yes |
| Insight threshold(s) | 20, 36, 50 |
| Properties |
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| Base size | medium |
| Base price | 500 zm (+10/positive enchant) |
| Default weight | 60 |
| Base material | metal |
A chikage is a type of magic weapon that appears in dNetHack, notdNetHack, and notnotdNetHack. It is a medium-sized one-handed slashing weapon that uses the longsword skill. It appears as an "ornate samurai saber" when unidentified and has the base material of metal but may also be made of gold or green-steel.
Generation
Vampire Undead Hunters have a 1⁄5 (20%) chance of starting each game with a cursed +0 chikage.
Vampire Madwomen will find a copper chikage in their quest box.
Chikage make up 1⁄100 of randomly generated weapons in the dungeon and in shops.
Chikage may be randomly generated in dilapidated armories.
There is a 1⁄2 chance of a chikage being generated in the chest in the top left room with the forge of the quest home level.
A chikage is randomly generated somewhere on the Undead Hunter quest goal level.
Deminymphs that are given the Undead Hunter kit may receive a chikage with a 1⁄11 chance, which will have an enchantment of +2—4
Undead Hunter player monsters generated on the Astral Plane have a 1⁄14 chance of being generated with a chikage.
Description
Applying a chikage will coat it in blood, which may increase a character's blood impurity. While bloodied, a chikage's base material is changed to hemargyos, and its color is set to red; it has its base damage die doubled and adds XL⁄3 damage and 1⁄2 of the character's sum impurity to all attacks, or 1⁄3 for a chikage-base Amalgamated Skies. Additionally, chikage will deal 1⁄2 of the character's total impurity score +1⁄2 as flat bonus damage against unholy-hating monsters when cursed, or 1⁄5 +2⁄5 for a chikage-base Amalgamated skies. Every turn a bloodied chikage is wielded, 1 hit point is lost, and an additional point for every 120 maximum hit points above 235, or twice as many with intrinsic poison resistance. This effect is cumulative when two-weaponing chikages.
It is a hand-and-a-half weapon, gaining a 1.5x strength bonus of +12 at 25 strength, +1⁄2 impurity. The chikage will revert from its bloodied state when not wielded for 1 turn or when dipped into a forge and has any erosion it previously had fixed.
Depending on the character's insight and impurity, a type of poison is applied to the chikage while bloodied:
- Below 20 insight, it counts as poisoned
- With 20 insight and with at least 10 impurity, it counts as filth-crusted
- With 50 insight and above and while at an HP total below 2 × impurity100, it counts as dire-poisoned
Like the rakuyo, the chikage gains blood-slashes at higher insight levels, but these are only carried out when force-fighting in a specified direction:
- At 20 insight, the chikage gains one blood-slash
- At 36 insight, the chikage a second blood-slash
Blood-slashes have a range of 2 squares and count as rotted blood-poisoned phasing attacks that deal half of the character's impurity as additional damage.
For lawful yuki-onna Kensei, the chikage may be used as their special weapon. Samurai may perform shattering blows with a wielded mainhand chikage.
Origins
Chikage is a katana that appears in the 2015 game Bloodborne. It is wielded by the bloody crow of cainhurst, who can be encountered at the end of Eileen the Crow's quest, and Yamamura the Wanderer, encountered in the Hunter's Nightmare DLC. Its encyclopedia entry quotes from its item description: "Foreign-made weapon wielded by the royal guards who protect Annalise, Queen of the Vilebloods at Cainhurst Castle. [...]". It can be obtained after reaching and swearing an oath to Annalise, Queen of Castle Cainhurst. It is one of two main-hand weapons in the game with blood attacks, the other being Bloodletter. dNetHack's Chikage is a weapon similarly imbued by the power of blood, and shares the rust-red ornamental appearance of two other Cainhurst and Cainhurst-inspired weapons: the evelyn and the shanta-pata. As insight rises, the Chikage gains the characteristic blood slashes of the Vileblood's weapon arts, seen during the bossfight with Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower.
Messages
- You sheath your sword in your saya and draw it forth bloody.
- You applied a chikage.
- You sheath your sword in your heart and draw it forth bloody.
- You applied a chikage with at least 27 insight.
- You sheath your sword in your shadow's heart and draw it forth bloody.
- You applied a chikage with at least 50 insight.
Encyclopedia
When the intricate, rippled engraving that spans a chikage's blade
is imbrued with blood, the sword sings in scarlet hues.
However, the rite eats away at the wielder's very essence.
[ Adapted from Bloodborne, by FromSoftware ]
